Holy Hiatus book & symposium

A link to the book "Holy Hiatus" at Parthian books website

also the 2nd symposium that took place in September 2010 now has viseos and update on the website - click here for link

holy hiatus iii

6 images very very very slowly dissolved from one to next. the first two from preparatory work, the second two from HH i the third pair from HH ii

Holy Hiatus III

performance
Saturday May 22
4 – 10.15 p.m.
Small World Theatre
Cardigan

perfformiad
Dydd Sadwrn Mai 22
4 – 10.15 y.p.
Canolfan Byd BychanAberteifi

This ongoing collaboration between Maura Hazelden & Lou Laurens explores the relationship between the material and the immaterial through image, voice and movement. Can the physical change consciousness, create sacred space, evoke the “holy”?

Mae’r cydweithrediad parhaus hwn rhwng Maura Hazelden & Lou Laurens yn archwilio, drwy ddelwedd, llais a symudiad, y berthynas rhwng y materol a’r anfaterol. A all y corfforol newid ymwybyddiaeth, creu gofod cysegredig, galw ar y ‘sanctaidd’?

A limited audience at any one time. Refreshments available.
Cynulleidfa gyfyng ar unrhyw un adeg. Lluniaeth ar gael.
unfunded untitled unrehearsed

heb deitl heb gyllid heb ymarfer

from 2009

sensing listening sounding
sensing listening moving

Sunday 16th May/Dydd Sul, 16fed Mai

2 parallel workshops with Maura Hazelden (movement) & Lou Laurens (voice).
£20 Booking essential
Cardigan/Aberteifi
Workshop: 2.30pm - 6pm. Shared space: 7pm – 8.30pm.

WORKSHOP POSPONED
For further information about the performance or workshop please Email: sensinglistening@googlemail.com Tel: 01239 891603

link to further details of the workshop

link to all Holy Hiatus entries....with further links to writing....

Lines & Strata

An open exhibition presenting a cross section of contemporary drawing practice from artists across Wales

Arddangosfa agored sy'n cyflwyno croestoriad o arferion darlunio cyfoes o bob cwr o Gymru.



Oriel Llyfrgell Dinbych/Denbigh Library Galery

Sgwar y Neuadd, Dinbych

06.03.2010 - 17.04.10



holy hiatus 3, 4 & 5: repetition & stillness



Drawing has always paid an important part in my life. My two favourite methods being pencil (currently Staedtler EE) and pen & ink. The work has ranged from near botanical accuracy to abstracting the landscape. I also view drawing in broader terms seeing lines and arrangements in everyday life that I photograph – from natural to synthetic. Throughout my life I have also used movement. In formal training I learnt to remember sequences of movement by orientation in the space and a sense of drawing with feet and hands. When I created a phrase of movement (to be repeated for 6 hours) for Holy Hiatus I was very aware of the floor pattern, especially as one of my practice places was on the estuary in Trefdraeth/Newport.

Holy Hiatus II visual documentation

initial written response here

still photography by Jacob Whittaker

Holy Hiatus

This ongoing collaboration between Maura Hazelden & Lou Laurens explores the relationship between the material and the immaterial through image, voice and movement. Can the physical change consciousness, create sacred space, evoke the “holy”?

Mae’r cydweithrediad parhaus hwn rhwng Maura Hazelden & Lou Laurens yn archwilio y berthynas rhwng y materol a’r anfaterol, drwy ddelwedd, llais a symudiad. A all y corfforol newi ymwybyddiaeth, creu gofod cysegredig, galw ar y ‘sanctaidd’?

Dydd Gwener Mai 22

4–10 y.p

Canolfan Byd Bychan

Aberteifi

Bathouse Road, Aberteifi/Cardigan, Ceredigion SA43 1JY

Friday May 22

4 - 10 p.m

Small world Theatre

Cardigan

A limited audience at any one time, refreshments available

Cynulleidfa gyfyng ar unrhyw un adeg, lluniaeth ar gael.

The event builds on work commissioned for Holy Hiatus: Ritual & Community in Public Art (2008), an exhibition/symposium curated by Ruth Jones, and is showing a year to the day in the same space.

Maura & Lou will be working between 4.00 & 10.00 pm. They will interact with footage and recordings from last year’s performance, creating a multi-layered exploration with the potential to develop year on year. No booking necessary but at any one time there will be a limited audience; refreshments will be available for those waiting.

Some reactions to last year’s performance:

“A very beautiful feeling and mood evoked in the space”

“opening to quietness… very moving”

“It was quite amazing…There was a lot of thinking to be done after it”

“It was a very spiritual, prayerful experience”

As part of the event there will be a meditation/prayer space in the dance studio. It is an open invitation to explore meditation and prayer in silence or through movement.

unfunded untitled unrehearsed : heb deitl heb gyllid heb ymarfer

Holy Hiatus

Ritual and Community in Public Art

Defod a Chymuned mewn Celfyddyd Gyhoeddus

link to entry for original performance

Holy Hiatus

Untitled 6 hour performance

with Louise Laurens

May 22nd 2008, Small World Theatre/Theatr Byd Bychan, Aberteifi/Cardigan

watching for the liminal in repetition.
After some while I chose to do my moving from a chair. I sat, as soon as I started to move it was prayer, contemplation.

Also see set of images: here

Holy Hiatus
Ritual and Community in Public Art.

The moment of crossing the threshold between outer and inner consciousness.
Curated by Ruth Jones
Aberteifi/Cardigan

Alastair MacLennan (Belfast); Simon Whitehead (Abercych); Maura Hazelden (Crymych) with Louise Laurens; Anna Lucas (London); Yvonne Buchheim (Bristol LAND2 Member)
and symposium

for further information see Holy Hiatus web site

an introduction to the performance can be read here

and a meander throught the themes and symposium here